ORLANDO, Fla. -- It's always a leap when a longtime assistant coach finally becomes a head coach, but for Boston Celtics assistant Tom Thibodeau, the adjustment will be even bigger than usual.
That's because he'll finally be able to speak again.
Thibodeau can communicate fine, it's just that Celtics head coach Doc Rivers has a policy that his assistant coaches can't speak to the media. So all the Bulls and Nets fans that have heard Thibodeau's name being bounced around as a possible head coaching candidate, will probably have to wait until the defensive guru gets hired somewhere to actually hear from him.